Yoga. Choose your style
Small group beginner to intermediate yoga & meditation classes for anyone who wants more peace, balance and mindfulness
Increase strength, balance, flexibility, concentration, and bone density. Promote calm and inner peace.
Heaths yoga encompasses many general styles of yoga. Through breathing exercises in combination with physical poses, Hatha yoga seeks to cleanse and connect the mind and body.
Hatha
Restorative & Meditation
Restorative Yoga
Increased flexibility, stamina, concentration and mental clarity. Restorative yoga classes are very calm and slow-paced. These classes focus on the use of props to achieve restorative poses that calm and promote healing in the body.
Meditation
A process of self exploration, self-discovery, and self transformation. Moving into inner stillness is one of the benefits of meditation, but it is not the goal of the practice itself.
Yoga for Athletes
Whether your an Olympic Athlete or weekend warrior yoga has so many benefits to add into your training schedule. Develop deep relaxed breathing, increase core strength, increase flexibility and range of motion, increase agility endurance and ease of movement, Improve balance and prevent injury.
Increase muscle strength, flexibility, cardiovascular function, respiratory capacity, and improve bone density.
Vinyasa is a flow between poses, also include breathing techniques that focus on the transition of the flow between poses.
Vinyasa
Gravity yoga & Yin Yoga
Gravity yoga or yin yoga
Increased flexability, circulation, and concentration. Improves mobility in the body and joints, improves the health of tissues, fascia, and joints, decreases anxiety and stress..
Trapeze yoga
Functional strength must include pushing, holding and pulling. Increase grip strength, weak wrists and shoulders. Instant spinal traction, relief of back pain, increase core strength, get into deeper back bends and more opening in the shoulders. Functional upper body and full body strength development.
Trapeze yoga
Yoga Therapy
yoga therapists have a respect and knowledge of yoga teachings and an interest in western science and medicine. Yoga Therapy is all about people, not conditions. Working with clients as individuals is important as each person ` different practices to ease their suffering. To be effective, Yoga Therapists must use more that just asana which is popular in most group classes.
The Koshas translate to sheaths
In the yoga therapy model, the goals not to transcend but bring back into balance. If one is not in balance, it can have an effect o the others.
Annamaya KOSHA, The Physical Body Practices: Asana & Food
Pranamaya KOSHA, The Energetic Body Practices: Breathwork
Manomaya KOSHA, The Conscious mind Practices: Philosophy & Chanting
Vijnanamaya KOSHA, The Intuitive Mind Practices: Meditation
Anandamaya KOSHA, The Bliss Body Practices: Surrender and Connection
— “The truth being the ultimate reality and the understanding of the connection of all things. —-Breathing deeply Yoga
THERAPEUTIC YOGA
Yoga Therapist
It is sometimes said that all yoga is therapeutic—and I would agree…when it is actually yoga. Which means that it must be practiced mindfully, in unification, and without harming oneself. Yoga becomes unhealthy when it is no longer truly yoga—when it is forced, frustrated, distracted, competitive, or rushed. That being said, just because all yoga can be therapeutic does not mean that all yoga is yoga therapy. You can benefit from the therapeutic effects of yoga without necessarily engaging in an established therapeutic relationship with a care provider, just as someone can benefit from exercise without working with an exercise physiologist. Expert guidance, however, may help you to achieve the outcomes you seek.
Yoga therapy has been defined by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) as “the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through the application of the teachings and practices of yoga.” I believe that the key word in this definition is “application.” Yoga therapy does not offer the teachings of yoga simply for their general benefit but specifically to help facilitate improved health and well-being. Yoga therapy sessions are often conducted one-on-one or in small groups of people with common goals and challenges (e.g., trauma survivors, or those living with cancer or recovering from surgery).
Three main features that help to distinguish yoga therapy from yoga teaching are: 1) intake, 2) plan of care, and 3) assessment.
A thorough intake ensures that the yoga therapist has a full and appropriate understanding of the client on all kosha levels (levels of being). A plan of care ensures that the client and yoga therapist have a mutual understanding of the concerns and priorities that will be the focus of care, and assessment ensures that the plan of care is appropriate and designed to facilitate progress toward the health and well-being that the client seeks.
Yoga therapy does not operate from a biomedical model or biopsychosocial framework, and is therefore distinct from modalities such as physical therapy or psychotherapy. Yoga therapy does not “treat” a condition, but works with the whole person to help restore more balance to the system wherever it is needed. In my yoga therapy work, the yoga is less about what is happening in the joints and more about my client’s whole-person relationship to whatever may be happening in the joints, which cannot be addressed so directly in a general yoga setting. Maybe the joints actually change, and maybe they don’t, but this does not determine the success of the therapy, because that was never the intention. That is better left to other healthcare providers more appropriately suited to focus on disease pathology.